Doing Marriage Well

A Christmas Blessing for Your Marriage and Soul

On this Christmas Day, Paul offers a simple blessing reminding you to be aware of Christ's coming and its meaning for you, your marriage, and the world.May the love of Jesus burn within you with renewed strength in the year ahead and overflow into your marriage and home.

A Christmas Eve Challenge for Couples: Pause

Christmas is busy. Tonight, slow down. A warm drink, soft music, and time together could be your best gift this year.

The Riskiest Gift You Can Give Your Spouse

In this episode Paul explains why promising to change is one of the riskiest — and potentially most rewarding — gifts you can give your spouse. He urges careful reflection before making any commitment and offers a quiet approach: decide, plan, and act without announcing it.Paul gives practical examples (decluttering, setting boundaries with family, fixing chronic lateness, improving sexual intimacy, ending pornography) and stresses the cost and lasting value of real change in marriage.

The Best Gifts Money Can't Buy: Out-of-the-Box Ideas

This episode explores creative, non-material gifts that strengthen marriages — experiences, acts of service, and thoughtful gestures like back rubs, shared walks, meaningful conversation, or a long hug.
It also explains using gift certificates or coupons to present these ideas, with tips for wildcards and extra-time certificates you can customise for your spouse.
We have some nice certificates you can use.
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Biblical Sex: What's Allowed, Expected, and Celebrated

This episode examines what the Bible actually teaches about sex in marriage: that regular, mutual enjoyment is expected (1 Corinthians 7; Proverbs 5), that ancient Jewish culture was open about sexuality, and that later Christian negativity shifted that view.
Key takeaways: prioritize sexual intimacy, respect mutual consent and pleasure, recognize there are no scriptural prescriptions for positions or specific acts between spouses, keep sexual activity exclusive to the marriage (porn is excluded), and communicate openly about desires and boundaries.
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Christian Couples Should Pray Together

This episode encourages Christian couples to make praying together a regular part of marriage, offering practical, small steps to get started—blessing meals, a few minutes at bedtime or morning, and asking for prayer during hard days.
It also suggests praying for other marriages (including pastors and newlyweds), affirms that praying about all areas of marriage—yes, even the bedroom—is appropriate, and highlights research linking couple prayer to dramatically lower divorce rates; additional resources are available on Fierce Marriage.
If you want to dig into praying together, Ryan & Selena have a great episode about praying as a couple on FIERCEmarriage. Good discussion and some resources.

Christian Marriage in Practice: Beyond Theory to Daily Grace and Sacrifice

This episode shows how a Christian marriage should be lived, making God the centre and practicing grace, forgiveness, and quiet sacrifice every day.
Listeners will hear practical examples—serving together, putting spouse’s needs first, avoiding scorekeeping, and shifting from blame to gratitude—along with biblical reasons for honouring one another, so prayers are not hindered.

Why Being Married to a Christian Should Be Different (And Better)

In this episode Paul argues that Christian marriages should stand out from the world: more love, protection, communication, and mutual sacrifice rooted in God's design. He traces how Jewish law once elevated women and makes the case that Christian spouses should offer even greater care and freedom today.
When believers model grace in how they love, fight, forgive, and serve, their marriages become a powerful witness to the gospel — to friends, children, and communities. Practical encouragement for couples to let transformation, not perfection, be their testimony.
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Biblical Marriage: When Scripture Meets Daily Life

This episode explores how Jesus’ everyday teachings — the Golden Rule, forgiveness, loving your neighbor, and avoiding judgment — apply directly to marriage, showing that Christian marriages should look different because they are empowered by Christ’s love.
Host Paul walks through concrete examples of loving, forgiving, and prioritizing your spouse, and explains how grace enables healthier, Bible-centered relationships.
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Don't Let The Holidays Steal Your Marriage Time

This episode warns that the holiday season can harm a marriage through many small intrusions rather than a single crisis, especially when busyness and differing expectations reduce couple time and intimacy.Paul offers practical solutions: be intentional about couple time, set boundaries with houseguests, use privacy strategies (locks, music, outings), get creative with intimacy and childcare, and communicate needs early and kindly to protect your marriage.